Day: October 24, 2019
“On The Road”, Again for Yet Another Rarity!
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
It’s been only 5 days since I was able to re-locate Ohio’s first recorded Gray Kingbird, when word got out about another rarity. This time it was a Northern Wheatear spotted on a farm in rural Richland County Ohio. I’ve heard of Richland County, but I wasn’t quite sure where it was located. It turns out to be… Continue reading “On The Road”, Again for Yet Another Rarity!
“On The Road”…this time for a Code 4!
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
Before I get started with this blog entry I thought I’d provide some information that some of you might already know. However there might be birders out there who are new to this great hobby that will find this info helpful. I’m coping and pasting what the American Birding Association defines as their birding codes for each of… Continue reading “On The Road”…this time for a Code 4!
Our Littlest Gull
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
Caesar Creek State Park can run either hot, or cold for me. I’ve been making regular visits recently with birding really starting to pick up with the arrival of more ducks to the lake. As for the regular gull population, it’s been the normal Ring-bill, Herring, and Bonaparte’s Gulls. That was until 2 days ago when a friend… Continue reading Our Littlest Gull
Notes From The Field
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
I’ve been sick off and on since Christmas. For the most part it’s been just a head cold, but it seems that as soon as this one clears up, another one takes over. Then to top it off I got bronchitis. With my medical history getting bronchitis is something I don’t get over quickly. Today the sun came… Continue reading Notes From The Field
Notes From The Field
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
What’s going on? Birding two days in a row! Maybe I’m feeling better and decided to follow up and do a little chasing of a pair of Long-tailed Ducks that are showing real well at East Fork State Park. But what got my spidey-senses tingling were the rumors of a Western Grebe also being seen. So after working… Continue reading Notes From The Field
Notes From The Field
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
It’s the beginning of April in the Ohio Valley. The outside temperatures are warming, and some of our early migrating birds are starting to show up like Pine Warblers, Louisiana Waterthrush, Eastern Phoebes, and the increase of Yellow-rumped Warblers. Early April is also the time us birders in southern Ohio start looking for Vesper Sparrows as the pass… Continue reading Notes From The Field
Prairie Warbler
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
Setophaga discolor, or prairie Warbler is one of those Warblers that have eluded me photographically for a very long time. Granted I’ve had plenty of great looks in the past, but to get one in the view finder and get off a decent shot has proved difficult for me. So today before the rain moved in I was off… Continue reading Prairie Warbler
Notes From The Field
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
One of my new pet projects is to collect the Warbler photos I’ve taken over the years, delete the bad ones and store the average to above average ones in a new album on my Flickr page. The recent posting of my Prairie Warbler photos was the first in the hopes of getting decent shots to fill in… Continue reading Notes From The Field
“On The Road”
Originally posted on A Birder's Notebook:
“Life Bird #455″ On April 22nd in the small hamlet of Fennville Michigan, at the waster water treatment facility a birder was checking out all the waterfowl that had congregated on the 3 small holding ponds. Amongst all the Lesser Scaup, Buffelheads, Horned Grebes, Mallards and Blue-winged Teal was a Scaup species with a all black back. That’s… Continue reading “On The Road”
